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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:42:00 -0600
Subject: Re: Flexible string representation, unicode, typography, ...
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:40:13 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> I think the documentation for those functions is simply badly worded.
>> The "width in bytes" it returns is not the width of the rune (which as
>> jmf notes is simply an alias for int32 that stores a single code point).
>
> Is this documented somewhere?

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Numeric_types